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The Physiology of Anxiety
Student, Modupe O Sarratt
Professor, Ahalya Hejmadi
Psychology 301 Section 7380
Created 10/28/2012
Revised 11/06/2012
Due 11/12/2012

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Content
Abstract 3
 The brief summary for anxiety
Introduction 4
Anxiety and being worry means the same thing
Anxiety and worry create awareness and action for behavior
Methodology of anxiety
 The physiology 4
The channel for information
 The correlation 4
The connection to cause awareness
 Biological process-action potential 5
The formation of action for automatic response
 The cognition-memory 6
The transmission of event to specific area for analyzing of event for memory and
retrieval
 The psychological-behavior 6
The recall of event and action designed for respond is the behavior for the event
 What is anxiety 7
Anxiety is the genetic trait for awareness with fight or flight respond, and for the
retrieval of action for past event.
Conclusion
 Logical summary 9
Reference 10

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Abstract
The physiology of anxiety is the reason for worrying to understand what is wrong. To understand
event, there must be a stimuli for what is that. The level of anxiety depends on encoding
information for action potential register in the sensory memory or the place cell for input in the
short-term memory to register an action for the occurrence of an event. If an action is not an
automatic nervous response (ANS), the action form for an event is transmitted to the long-term
for storage. The recall of an event is the repeated action that becomes the habit use to respond.
The habit of action for event becomes our behavior for recognized event. An ignored anxiety is
the cause for fear, or paranoia. An abstract by Michel J Dugas and others suggested that
"Intolerance of uncertainty" is the "fear of anxiety." (Dugas et.al 2012) Unable to recognized and
formulated an action for event causes depression. Anxiety is not the causes for abnormal
behavior. The words associated with anxiety are Autonomic nervous system (ANS), Central
nervous system (CNS), Peripheral nervous system (PNS), Somatic and sympathetic nervous
system (SNS), Parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS), Short-Term Memory, and Long-Term
Memory (LTM)

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Introduction
The medical notion that anxiety is abnormal for behavior that needs treatment despite the
fact that anxiety is necessary to forming a behavior for an event is the physiology of anxiety.
Anxiety or worry is a genetic specialize stimuli or cell for detecting the unknown that start with
reflex for fight or flight response to unknown event in the cell place for a situation to create
awareness for the event. Anxiety and being worry means the same thing because is the stimuli
that initiate awareness and anxiety or worry is not a disorder because it is genetic trait and the
cells for creating awareness and action for unknown event in the environment store in the
memory to respond to the reoccurrence of an event that become a behavior for event. An anxiety
or worry function looks something like this picture by Allyn & Bacon
(Bacon 2012 Chapter 2 Carlson UMUC)
Anxiety protocol, from reflection → perception →sensation → stimulate chemical element for
action potential → fight or flights → create awareness → transmit to memory. Anxiety is known
to be the functioning nerves that initiate a reflex to recognize an event and form action for the
event. If there were no anxiety, there would be no action. What we see, hear, and feel is the
sensations that make us worry. Anxiety in a medical term is use to indicate disorder and need

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treatment. Treating an anxiety as a disorder is taking away the course for awareness and the drive
for action. Truth about "anxiety," is that, it is the drive, the sensation in the biological process for
automatic response with action for fight or flight, to form an action for understanding. Anxiety
from perception to action involve five process, (1) the physiology is the channel for information
(2) the correlation is connection, (3) the cognition is the understanding (4) the biological is the
formation of action (5) The psychological is form action use for habit for an event.
The physiology
What do we mean by physiology is the channel for associating event. It can be from
external environment or internal environment to generate the need for awareness. It is the route
for information for perception. Another word, physiology is the channel to form information
about the environment. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, physiology “is a channel for the
transmission of information.” (Encyclopedia Britannica 2010)
The correlation
The correlation of the physiology is the connection of the perceptions for sensations that
produces attention to worry or anxiety as the stimuli to the Nervous System to recognize the
information. The physiology involves the function of Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) for
association to compare the nature of the environment if is normal. For example, asking the
question what is that. Therefore, the correlation is the attention to occurring event with worry or
anxiety.

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The biological
The biology process of anxiety is the neurophysiology of the brain structures and
neurotransmitters for action potential that involves the Central nervous system (CNS), Peripheral
nervous system (PNS), Autonomic nervous system (ANS), Somatic and sympathetic nervous
system (SNS), and Parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS) that act somewhat in recital to
present the fact for an event. According to online article on the Physiology of Anxiety written by
Victor Santos and et al., “anxiety is the part of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous
system for autonomic nervous system generated for fight-or- flight response” that qualified
anxiety as a innate, a trait of genetic code that can be dominant or recessive. The article
indentifies “The physiology of fight-or-flight involves production of adrenaline and cortisone
by the adrenal glands” these hormones prepare the body for action. (Santos 2010) This is
anxiety for action potential to forming an action. (Albert & et.al 2012)
The Cognition
The cognition of anxiety is the process for input information and action and recalling
action of known event. If an event is new, it goes to the working memory for process to be
register in the short-memory for storage in the long-term memory in the hippocampus. In the
case, the event happens again. According to online article for Genes to Cognition, the
Neuroscience for Kid about ADHD indicated that the “Genes to Cognition” is attention
because “Attention is one of the fundamental cognitive processes. It is an important factor in
attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and is associated with a number of other processes . . . For
example, in Attention and Memory, Nobel Laureate Eric Kendal discusses the importance of

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attention to memory formation. Genes associated with attention are similar to those associated
with ADHD, and include the dopamine receptor DRD4 and the dopamine transporter DAT1.
Dopamine is the biochemical most intimately linked with attention, but serotonin and
norepinephrine are also important. The frontal lobe, which is involved in higher, executive
processes, is the brain region most intimately linked to attention, while the parietal lobe is
involved in processing spatial attention.” (G2C 2011) The article further suggested that
“ADHD” might not be a disorder and need further evaluation with this conclusion “In Brain
Cells and ADHD, Professor Judith Rapport explains that it has been difficult to find the cellular
effects of ADHD because many candidate genes and so-called risk genes have isoforms not
present in many ADHD patients. A more complete understanding of the physiology of neurons,
synapses, and glial cells will doubtless take us closer to understanding all disorders at the cellular
level.” (G2C 2011)
The psychological
The psychology of anxiety is the level of action for an event reoccurrence that become a
habit behavior use to respond. The signal for the sensation and the level of anxiety depend on the
process of recalling and retrieving an action of past event or experience. The level depends on
individual trait for ability to retrieve information. Sometime an action for event may took a while
to remember what action was form in the beginning might cause more concern or anxiety if
unable to remember. For example, able relate to an event but not knowing what to do produce
little anxiety because the event only recorded in short-term memory. Anxiety that enables us to
response immediately with fight or flight response does not require forming an action. The
psychology of anxiety is the experiences of an event.

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What is anxiety?
Anxiety is the nature stimulant for sensation of perception to initiate awareness, the
stimuli that drive the sensory information of environment to the brain. Anxiety is the genetic trait
for awareness for fight or flight responds, for gathering information and producing action, and
for the retrieval of action for past event that shape the behavior for experience event.
The process involves neuron and supporting cell with various chemical such as sodium
potassium, calcium, and neurotransmitter between cells for action potential in the sensory
memory to registering action for event in short-term memory or the motor neuron on an event in
Central Nervous System CNS. The CNS is the unconscious mind for immediate action that
limited to the part of the brain that performs the action. If action generated does not need storage
because it part of autonomic response such as fight or flight, the action is final. Anxiety is the
means by which we take information in and is the means by which we retrieve information.
Anxiety for the working memory is the active process to encode brief information for
storage in the Long-term memory. For example, when we see an event that we can relate to but
we don not remember exactly what to do. Anxiety for the long-term memory includes the
sensation, the vision, judgment, coordination, and movement of information for what is known to
what is done. According to Jeffrey, Long-term memory “store all kinds of thing” with the
indication that research suggest that anxiety can call for recall, “the bits and pieces of event not
necessarily the whole event exactly as what happened during the actual event”. (Nevi 2007
Memory p136) Anxiety produces action for declarative and procedural of an event with
speculation and ritual for the event is acknowledgement for a behavior. There is no disorder in
anxiety. The solution is known. The ability of anxiety to evoke action depends on the event,

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genetic trait, and the functioning of our nervous system. The level of anxiety depends on when
event is understood for action. In biological process, anxiety is automatic respond for fight or
flight. In cognition is the process for an event. In psychological is the recalling of action for an
event.
Anxiety on a cellular level for spatial and place is the stimuli for attention, without
anxiety it would be difficult to form a behavior for an unknown place and event. Anxiety or
worry is not a disorder; anxiety is nature gene and the cell for awareness of an event that shape
behavior. Recently, on the news about school bullying, perhaps the boy that was bullied is on
antianxiety drug. To take away anxiety because it was considered a disorder is to hinder the
ability to form an action for an event. Anxiety is not the disorder, depression is. Anxiety is not
the cause for paranoia, fear is, and fear is ignored anxiety. When Anxiety is ignored, or unable to
initiate an action, it produces fear. Unable to form action for response causes depression. Animal
and human cannot live without anxiety is part of the gene and cell to create awareness. Without
awareness action cannot be produce, without action no response, and without response no
behavior. Anxiety is the stimuli for action to respond and remember depend on individual ability
Therefore; there is no excessive worry or anxiety. The level of fear for anxiety not anxiety
depends on how long anxiety is ignored, when able to form an action, and retrieve past action.
Conclusion
The physiology of anxiety is the initiation of unknown event to gathering information for
processing an action that depends on individual ability to form action, store information, and
retrieve information, which depend on the functioning of the organs system, the anatomy, and
the physiology of body.

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